Guru :

The Bhakti scriptures admit that the manifestations of Power are different in different beings.

It is Rama who has become everything, no doubt; but He manifests Himself more in some than in others.

There is one kind of manifestation of Rama in the Incarnation of God, and another in men.

Even the Incarnations are conscious of the body.

Embodiment is due to maya.

Rama wept for Sita.



But the Incarnation of God puts a bondage over His eyes by His own will, like children playing blindman's buff.

The children stop playing when their mother calls them.

It is quite different, however, with the ordinary man.

The cloth his eyes are bandaged with is fastened to his back with screws, as it were.

There are eight fetters. Shame, hatred, fear, caste, lineage, good conduct, grief, and secretiveness-these are the eight fetters.

And they cannot be unfastened without the help of a guru.


The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna,